Harvard Business Review project management handbook : how to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects / Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nieto-Rodriguez, Antonio, author.

Series:

Harvard Business Review handbooks series

Harvard Business Review Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Other Title:

Project management handbook

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. We're now living in the project economy. As the number of projects initiated in both the public and private sectors skyrockets, project management skills have become essential for all leaders and managers. But despite this project boom, the failure rate remains extremely high. Why? Leaders have too many projects and too little visibility into them, and they lack the project implementation competencies necessary to deliver their projects successfully. Project managers have the technical skills, but they often have trouble translating their hands-on know-how up to the leaders'-eye view. Worthy projects languish and fail to deliver benefits, starved of resources, while too much investment is made in projects with less merit or potential value. The HBR Project Management Handbook will help you bridge this gap. In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a simple and intuitive framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, you'll learn to more effectively navigate through your organization's inventory of projects, programs, and strategic, and agile initiatives in order to better select which ones to push forward and which to kill, as well as how they should be prioritized and how you can ensure they're completed as planned. Timeless yet forward-looking, the advice in this book will help you and your organization thrive in the project-driven world. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack-whatever your role"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Welcome to the Project Management Economy

Part One: Project Fundamentals for Everybody

1. Projects Everywhere

2. What Is a Project?

3. What Project Management Is Now

Part Two: The Project Canvas

4. Introduction to the Project Canvas

5. The Foundation

6. The People

7. The Creation

8. Putting the Project Canvas into Practice

Part Three: Individual and Organization Project Competencies

9. Project Leadership

10. Selecting and Prioritizing Projects

11. The Agile and Project-Driven Organization

Part Four: A Better Future through Projects

12. Project Managing a Better Future

Conclusion: The Project Manifesto

Appendix: The Benefits Card

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-64782-127-4

OCLC:

1252736539

Publisher Number:

9781663716156